{"id":18191,"date":"2025-03-20T05:46:59","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T05:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=18191"},"modified":"2025-03-20T05:46:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T05:46:59","slug":"bitcoins-crisis-paradox-decoded-bitwise-cio-explains-dip-then-rip-phenomenon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=18191","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin&#8217;s Crisis Paradox Decoded: Bitwise CIO Explains &#8216;Dip Then Rip&#8217; Phenomenon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Bitwise\u00a0<\/strong>Chief Investment Officer\u00a0<strong>Matt Hougan<\/strong> explained <strong>Bitcoin\u2019s <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) often contradictory behavior during market crises, despite its narrative as an inflation hedge.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened<\/strong>: In a research note <a href=\"https:\/\/experts.bitwiseinvestments.com\/cio-memos\/dip-then-rip\">released <\/a>Tuesday, Hougan said that short-term price dips that Bitcoin experiences during economic turbulence are due to increased market uncertainty. This uncertainty amplifies the perceived riskiness of the asset, leading to a temporary decrease in the asset\u2019s value, also known as a \u201cdiscount factor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hougan used the example of tariff concerns, which have <a href=\"https:\/\/in.benzinga.com\/trading-ideas\/movers\/25\/03\/44099481\/bitcoin-ethereum-dogecoin-nosedive-as-trumps-tariff-moves-wipe-out-crypto-reserve-fueled-gains-analyst-says-breaking-through-this-barrier-will-help-btc-touch-new-highs-2\">battered the apex cryptocurrency<\/a> over the past month. While tariffs increase the riskiness in the short term, they increase the long-term price target owing &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/25\/03\/44410262\/why-bitcoin-pulls-back-and-then-gains-after-economic-uncertainties-like-tariffsbitwise-cio-explains-dip-then-rip-\" alt=\"Bitcoin's\" crisis paradox decoded: bitwise cio explains then rip phenomenon>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitwise\u00a0Chief Investment Officer\u00a0Matt Hougan explained Bitcoin\u2019s (CRYPTO: BTC) often contradictory behavior during market crises, despite its narrative as an inflation hedge. What Happened: In a research note released Tuesday, Hougan said that short-term price dips that Bitcoin experiences during economic turbulence are due to increased market uncertainty. This uncertainty amplifies the perceived riskiness of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-18191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}